openSUSE Wants Your Vote (on Bugs)

Attention openSUSE users and contributors! It’s time to exercise your vote and help the openSUSE team identify the bugs that need to be squashed prior to the openSUSE 11.0 release. On May 22nd, we’re having a bug voting day to help ensure we identify the most troublesome issues in Bugzilla under openSUSE 11.0.

Please join us on Thursday, May 22nd from 07:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC. Check out the voting instructions on the Bugzilla and openSUSE wiki. We’ll also have live help available in the #openSUSE-Factory channel on Freenode.

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By prioritizing the bugs, we can ensure that we’ve got the right bugs in our sights for the openSUSE 11.0 release.

Of course, you can help with bug voting at any time. There’s no need to wait for a bug day! Just roll up your sleeves and head over to the openSUSE Bugzilla and jump right in.

Do you mean to say that all the bugs that are identified(be it big or small)won’t be fixed before the final release? I think it really would be a better idea to fix all the bugs before the release – even if that might delay the release by a few days.

Unfortunately, yes — some bugs won’t be fixed. I don’t think any distro ships with 0 bugs, not if they’re being honest, anyway — but we want to identify the most critical bugs that need to be fixed before 11.0. Fixing “all the bugs before the release” would be next to impossible, I’m sorry to say.

I have unfortunately still following problem with my TV card.
This card does not work under Suse 11 beta 3. I hope that the final version 11 to end the problem with this TV card fixes. It is following chipset: Conexant CX23880
This is the latest Version of Terratec HT PCI analog/dvb-T. (new Version MK II)

How about having a list of release-critical bugs, like Debian, and not releasing before they are squashed? Why the hurry, anyway?
10.3 was released with an extremely annoying bug: “Repair”, one of the features which made me a proud openSUSE user, didn’t work from the install media.

I strongly agree to your idea of squashing all the bugs before the final release. I have one more suggestion. If at all openSUSE is bent of releasing it on-time(with some bugs) due to organizationsal constraints,I would suggest instead of releasing openSUSE 11.1(again with some bugs) – we can release openSUSE 11.01 with 0 bugs. Why cant we do that? Why cant openSUSE change the trend every other OS is following and produce a zero-bug OS. Let us call it openSUSE 11 (Zero Bug) – something like Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I think that will really make the world look up to us… I dont know if this is possible. I am just a newbie. But I think, if this is done, there is nothing like it.

No, I strongly agree with you. But Beineri is exactly correct. You have to keep in mind, who is Ubuntu committing to with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS? While Ubuntu is popular because it’s free, it doesn’t have the $$ numbers behind it – at least from real business partners. So, what does that mean? In other words, it means that “LTS” is nearly meaningless!!!

For me, the most important bugs are already those listed under “Most Annoying Bugs” in about that order. I’m not expecting to install this on the ENIAC, or Konrad Zuse’s Z1 machine. And it’s truly a realistic disclaimer that not all OS’s work on all machines. Ubuntu flopped on my old Dell Inspiron 1100; whereas, my retail version of SUSE 8.2 (which is still installed) installed and runs beautifully. And the games are nice! I’m not realistically expecting SUSE to continue support for my old Inspiron, or every piece of hardware on the planet. I’m in disbelief that it supports as much as it does, which is extremely impressive. I have a computer science degree, and I’ll tell you, SUSE’s software engineers are doing a great job. They’re geniuses in my opinion. Wish I could do more testing for you.

OK, thanks, but will 11 be released before all the “blockers” are squashed?
10.3 was: “Repair” didn’t work.
Honestly, sometimes I miss the old days, when the only way to get SUSE was buying a box. They were very few bugs and the boxes and their contents were so beautiful.

AFAIK this regression was introduced as side-effect by a last-day fix of something other (means it did work all the time including last release candidates) and was only discovered after the ISO was sent to the DVD plant. So it was not a known bug like the others we are talking about here.

It’s Unfair!!! I know it’s not possible to ship it with zero bugs… that is nearly impossible and would probably take a lot of months… (and there wouldn’t be possible to include recent versions of 3rd party software that were released in that “lot of months”) but one a-lot-more bug-free version would be for sure possible…

anyway, i do think it’s a bit unfair… but i bet the developers are doing the best they can with the time Novell has given them… and for Novell… well they have to live on something… so… this schedules have to be used… it’s all part of the big machine… (even it it’s unfair, sometimes…)